January 2022 updates from the JX community

January 2022 updates from Jenkins X

By Ankit D Mohapatra | Wednesday, February 02, 2022

We restarted the office hours this month (https://jenkins-x.io/community/#office-hours). Drop by to say hello, we are a friendly group!
First Jenkins X survey was also created this month (https://jenkins-x.io/blog/2022/01/21/survey-1-2022/). We have extended the deadline by 2 weeks (Feb 11, 2022 midnight UTC), so fill it out if you have not yet. We will use this for the roadmap moving forward.
Monthly blog post update series to keep up with all the amazing progress.

jx-plugins/jx-gitops:
- Cron job to delete old boot jobs
- Option to Keep n boot jobs older than default age
jenkins-x/lighthouse:
- Support for using gitlab nested repositories
- Allow running lighthouse with cluster scoped permissions
- Add a flag to keep polling releases until commit status is successful
- Do not include tekton roles when tekton engine is disabled
jx-plugins/jx-pipeline:
- Use pager to aid in visualizing long pipeline logs
jenkins-x-terraform/terraform-jx-azure
- Support provisioning spot instances in the azure terraform jx module
jx-plugins/jx-verify:
- Support specifying label for jx verify install
jenkins-x-plugins/jx-registry:
- Support adding ECR registry policy using jx-registry
jenkins-x-charts/jxboot-helmfile-resources:
- Make all storage locations available as envrironment variables

GoogleContainerTools/kaniko (upstream fix - outside jx codebase):
- Kaniko in jx pipelines can now push to ACR (Azure Container Registry)
jenkins-x/terraform-aws-eks-jx:
- Remove deprecated jx v2 keys from requirements configmap
- Fix issue with on-demand billing mode of dynamodb
jenkins-x-plugins/jx-promote:
- Fix local chart check when using cloud buckets to store helm charts
jenkins-x-plugins/jx-project:
- Fix jx project rendering invalid chart.yaml files on import for custom packs in catalog

Guides on configuring Azure service principle and GCP service account for terraform users (https://jenkins-x.io/v3/admin/platforms/azure/svc_principal/ and https://jenkins-x.io/v3/admin/platforms/google/svc_acct/)
New section showing current Jenkins X users (https://jenkins-x.io/#users)
New section on learning resources for Jenkins X v3 (https://jenkins-x.io/v3/learning-resources/)
Improved documentation on setting up Jenkins X v3 on AWS EKS (https://jenkins-x.io/v3/admin/platforms/eks/)
Improved guide on installing and configuring Jenkins X on k3s (https://jenkins-x.io/v3/admin/platforms/k3s/)
Fixed content getting clipped in mobile view

jenkins-x/jx:
- Disable running github actions on forks
jenkins-x/jx-docs:
- Upgrade docsy submodules
- Upgrade hugo docker image
- Migrate jx-docs to new pipeline format
jenkins-x/jx-gitops:
- upgrade kubectl version for kpt
- upgrade helm and helmfile version

Huge thanks to all the contributors for their hardwork!